Elizabeth Swetman or Sweetman

Elizabeth married John Charles on 1 Sep 1730 in Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. John and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Note: In Brimfield Historical Celebration of the Town of Brimfield page 389 Genealogy of the Charles Family, Elizabeth's birthdate is listed as 3 Oct 1711

Elisabeth married Benjamin4 Cooley on 1 Sep 1730 in Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Benjamin4 (son of Benjamin3 Cooley and Margaret Bliss) was born on 5 Nov 1701 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts; died on 1 Apr 1790 in Pittsford, Rutland Co, Republic of Vermont; was buried about Apr 1790 in Old Baptist Burying Ground, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Note that The Cooley Genealogy has a birth year of 1731 which, after 1752, it was.

(Research):"Ontario Sessional Papers, 1930, No.24A-39"
The report of the Acting Surveyor General bearing date the 21st of September, 1795, relative to the lands between Long Point and the Grand
River was laid before the Council.
Gideon Cooley, Sen. whose son Luther Cooley received a ticket of location from Andrew Pierce for lot No. 1 in the 12th con. on the head waters of Patter- son's Creek on Lake Erie, the said Luther having by the paper annexed to his petition given up his right thereto to the petitioner, who prays that the same may be granted to him. Ordered that 200 acres be granted and referred to
the Surveyor General for location.
Gideon Cooley, Jun.: Has a wife and five children and has never received any land. Prays for three hundred acres in the Long Point Settlement or in the Township of Townsend. Ordered that the petitioner shall have a grant of
two hundred acres.
Brantford Ontario is a city located on the Grand River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was incorporated as a city in 1877. This single-tier municipality is part of Brant County. Brantford is sometimes known by the nickname The Telephone City, after one of the city's most famous former residents, Alexander Graham Bell. The Native-American tribe the Attawandaron, or Neutral Nation, lived in the Grand River valley area before the 17th century; their main village and seat of the chief, Kandoucho, was identified by 19th-century historians as having been located on the Grand River where Brantford lies today. This town, like the rest of their settlements, was destroyed when the Iroquois declared war in 1650 and exterminated the Neutral nation. In 1784, Captain Joseph Brant and the Six Nations Indians left New York for Canada. As a reward for their loyalty to the British Crown, they were given a large land grant on the Grand River. The original Mohawk settlement was on the south edge of the present-day city at a location favourable for landing canoes. Brant's crossing of the river gave the original name to the area: Brant's ford. By 1847, European settlers began to settle further up the river at a ford in the Grand River and named the village Brantford. The native settlement was abandoned except for the Mohawk Chapel which remains Ontario's oldest Protestant church.

Gideon married Elizabeth Osborn in 9 Oct 1758 (Intention) in Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born about 1743 in Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts; died about 1800 in Brantford, Brant Co, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Taken verbatim from the Cooley Genealogy pp 468-470

ii Eunice Cooley
da. Benjamin, No. 269 above, b. Sept. 2, 1732, Brimfield, Mass.; d. about 1825-30, place unknown. On Apr. 13, 1752, her intention to wed was filed in Leicester, Mass., and on May 4, 1752, she was married to Benjamin Garfield of Leicester. He may have been the son of Benjamin and Bethia (How) Garfield, b. May 6, 1718, Marlboro, Mass., d. June 27, 1755. Eunice m. (2), prob. in 1756, Ephraim Pratt, res. Hardwick (now Dana) and Wendell, Mass., d. Wendell, Jan. 20, 1809, bur. near Shutesbury and Lock's Village, Mass., prob. s. Phineas and Martha (Puffer), b. Jan. 10, 1732, Sudbury, Mass. Eunice (Cooley) Garfield was his second wife; the name of his first wife is not known.
Benjamin Garfield and Eunice (Cooley) lived near Northfield, Mass., and had one or more children, of whom nothing is known. One report cites a son, captured with his mother by the Indians, who visited his mother in later years, but preferred to live like a savage, as he had been brought up as an Indian; another report says she had only a daughter, Eunice Garfield, concerning whose fate Mrs. Garfield was uncertain. It seems likely that the story concerning the son is "historical fiction" rather than fact; such stories were common regarding anyone with children captured by the Indians.
Married in 1752, captured in 1755, Eunice Cooley Garfield probably had a two-year-old child and an infant; the infant was probably slain by the Indians; generally, when a long march was intended, the mothers were not permitted to carry small infants with them.
In 1742 Orlando Bridgman had built a block-house on his farm, which stood within the then limits of Northfield, Mass. The fort was strongly built and well-picketed, and occupied by three families, those of Caleb How, Hilkiah Grout, and Benjamin Garfield.
On the morning of June 27, 1755, three years after the marriage of Benjamin Garfield and Eunice Cooley, these three men, with the two young sons of Caleb How, went to work in a meadow on the bank of the river a little above the fort. About sunset they started to return to the block-house. Mr. How and his sons were on horseback, and a little ahead of the others. Upon reaching the meadow hill north of the fort, they were fired upon from ambush. Caleb How was shot in the thigh and brought to the ground; he was then scalped by the Indians, and struck by a hatchet in the head and left for dead. His boys were taken alive. Grout and Garfield attempted to escape by crossing the river; Grout succeeded, but Benjamin Garfield was drowned.
As soon as it grew dark the Indians went to the fort, made the proper signal, which they had learned, and were admitted. They took the women and children prisoners, killing all infant children. The fort was then fired, and the captives started on their long trek to Canada.
There is nothing left of old Fort Bridgman. At the spot where the capture took place (now Vernon, Vt.) is a large boulder, commemorating the capture, taken from the old How farm, erected by the town of Vernon and marked with a tablet by the Brattleboro Chapter of D. A. R.; the monument seems to be largely to the memory of Caleb How, as no mention is made of the other two families involved.
The Indians took their captives to Canada. Eunice (Cooley) Garfield seems to have been a woman of considerable personal beauty, as well as of fortitude and presence of mind. She adapted herself to the situation by a forced cheerfulness and because of her evident courage gained favor with the Indians, and was thus treated fairly well on the long march. For many days she kept a sharp lookout for aid, expecting to be rescued by her husband, of whose death she learned only on her return. With the other two women she took turns standing all night, to be ready for quick flight, but no help came.
After many days and nights of travel, footsore and weary, the captives finally reached a French settlement in Canada. Here the Indians sold them as slaves. Eunice was sold to a French family, of which she quickly became a beloved and trusted member, and was soon entrusted with the purchase of all household goods and supplies. Longing for her freedom, she told her story to one of the tradesmen whose friendship she had gained. He was a kindly man and offered to put $10 with every dollar she could save, to be repaid after she got home, so that she could purchase her liberty; this she eventually did. She was sent to France, and from there to England and thence to Boston. She probably reached Massachusetts some time in 1756. In 1758, she was paid a sum of money by New Hampshire to cover her last year in Canada.
On her return to Massachusetts, Eunice learned of her husband's death. Shortly thereafter she became the second wife of Ephraim Pratt, and she lived for nearly half a century in Hardwick (now Dana), where she was widely known and beloved as "Aunt Pratt." People came from a long distance to see the old lady, and to hear the story of her Indian adventures. She lived to be well past 90. The place of her burial is unknown. Old graves in Dana were dug up in the process of building a reservoir for Boston; no record has been found of the old gravestones. Her second husband, Ephraim Pratt, is buried in the Pratt graveyard near Shutesbury and Lock's Village, with his son and grandson. At the time of her death Eunice may easily have been living with one of her numerable descendants, and have been buried in the lot of one of the other members of her family.

Eunice married Benjamin Garfield on 2 Sep 1752 in Leicester, Worcester Co, Province of Massachusetts Bay. Benjamin was born on 6 May 1718 in Marlborough, Province of Massachusetts Bay; died on 5 Jun 1755 in Vernon, Province of Massachusetts Bay. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eunice married Ephraim Pratt before 1757 in Hardwick, Worcester Co, Massachusetts. Ephraim was born about 1732 in Massachusetts; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Jeremiah Powers on 4 May 1755 in Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Jeremiah was born about 1732 in Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts; died about 1801 in Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont; was buried about 1801 in Meeting House Cem, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Keziah married Seth Johnson about 1760 (Intention) in Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Seth was born about Feb 1734/35 in Shrewsbury, Worcester Co, Massachusetts; died about Sep 1807 in Hardwick, Worcester Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]